# Some manifests may be malformed, e.g. prosiebensat1 generated manifests
# (see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6215#issuecomment-121704244
# and https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7823)
- manifest = fix_xml_ampersands(urlh.read()).strip()
+ manifest = fix_xml_ampersands(urlh.read().decode('utf-8', 'ignore')).strip()
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(manifest)
formats = [(int(f.attrib.get('bitrate', -1)), f)